Senior QA Engineer – Video Surveillance & USP

Quantum; Centennial, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum seeks a Senior QA Engineer for USP and VS/Acuity to drive end-to-end quality across virtualization, storage, and surveillance deployments.

You will plan and execute functional, regression, and security tests, design test rigs, manage the QA lab, and document results. Collaborate with development, support, and field teams to ensure release readiness and customer success in enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA engineering experience, including time in a senior or lead capacity.
• Strong hands-on manual testing background with enterprise software, storage, virtualization, or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience building and managing physical test environments — server hardware setup, cabling, component replacement, and lab logistics.
• Solid working knowledge of VMware environments (vSphere, ESXi, vMotion, HA/DRS) and hyperconverged infrastructure concepts.
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux and Windows Server environments.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals (VLANs, bonding/teaming, iSCSI, multicast) and storage concepts.
• Experience writing clear, thorough test plans and test cases, and documenting results for engineering and executive audiences.
• Experience with security/vulnerability testing and remediation validation (e.g., Qualys, Nessus, or similar scan tooling).
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate work across a team — assigning tasks, tracking progress, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Strong communicationskills and the ability to work across engineering, support, and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute hands-on functional, regression, integration, and solutions testing for USP and VS/Acuity releases
• Write and maintain test plans and test cases covering new features, failure scenarios, upgrades, and customer-representative configurations
• Design, build, and maintain solutions test rigs that replicate real-world surveillance deployments, including VMS integrations, camera simulation, and multi-node cluster configurations
• Perform security and vulnerability testing, including validating fixes for scan findings and hardening requirements common in enterprise and government deployments
• Execute VMware certification and compatibility testing (vSphere/ESXi qualification, live migration, HA/failover validation)
• Manage the QA lab environment, including rig assignments, scheduling, hardware inventory, and component replacements (drives, NICs, controllers, nodes)
• Assign and coordinate test tasks across the QA team, track execution progress, and provide clear release-readiness and quality status updates
• Reproduce and investigate customer-reported issues and escalations spanning virtualization, storage, networking, and operating systems
• Contribute to product and support documentation, including test procedures, known-issue write-ups, and field-facing technical content
• Develop and deliver training on products, test procedures, and lab practices for QA team members and cross-functional partners
• Work closely with development, support, and field teams to drive issues to resolution

Skills

QA engineering

Manual testing

VMware vSphere

Linux

Windows Server

Networking fundamentals

Test planning

Security testing

Team coordination

Communication skills

Tools

VMware ESXi

vSphere

Nessus

Qualys

Job description

Quantum seeks a Senior QA Engineer for USP and VS/Acuity to drive end-to-end quality across virtualization, storage, and surveillance deployments.

You will plan and execute functional, regression, and security tests, design test rigs, manage the QA lab, and document results. Collaborate with development, support, and field teams to ensure release readiness and customer success in enterprise environments.